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Move over Arnold Arboretum. Harvard may soon own a 400,000-acre New Zealand forest...
Harvard Management Company (HMC), the group responsible for investing Harvard’s $19.3 billion endowment, is in the process of buying a forestry estate speculated to be worth $500 million from New Zealand’s Central North Island Forestry Partnership, The New Zealand Herald reported on Friday...
According to the Herald, the state-planted tree farm was in receivership to a consortium of 12 banks, and was originally on the market for $650 million. The Herald also reported that Harvard was believed to be behind a thus-far failed bid for another massive New Zealand forest, raising the prospect that they could end up with a “super-estate...
Neil Paku, a New Zealand native whose wife is a Harvard graduate student, said that in 1992 he worked in log transport in the forest that Harvard is reportedly buying...
...Much of the world?including Asia, the Middle East, the U.S., the U.K., Canada and New Zealand?leaves the spanking issue up to parents. But 11 nations?Austria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Israel, Iceland, Latvia, Norway and Sweden?already have laws prohibiting corporal punishment of children. Sanctions range from fines to possible imprisonment. And if child-welfare activists and the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child have their way, the day will soon come when spanking is illegal everywhere. As of this year, care workers in the U.K. are no longer permitted to strike children in their...